A rare case of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection causing chyluria

T S Kwong; H Y Chan; T C Wu

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01342

A rare case of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection causing chyluria

IDCases. 2021 Nov 16:26:e01342. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01342. eCollection 2021.

Authors

T S Kwong^{1

2}, H Y Chan², T C Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong.
² Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong.

Abstract

We report a case of chyluria caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum infection in a sixty-four year old male, who was successfully treated with two weeks of amikacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and levofloxacin followed by twenty four weeks of levofloxacin and doxycycline.

Keywords: Chyluria; MOTT; Mycobacterium fortuitum; NTM.

Publication types

Case Reports